The new protocol would address a specific demand by enabling the international community to pursue concerted efforts in a field which had not previously been comprehensively covered by an instrument of international humanitarian law, and it would ensure that the Convention continued to offer a way of addressing existing and new threats posed by weapons that were excessively injurious or had indiscriminate effects.
Este nuevo Protocolo responderá a un imperativo específico al permitir que la comunidad internacional lleve a cabo una acción concertada en una esfera que no ha estado hasta ahora completamente regulada por un instrumento de derecho internacional humanitario y que la Convención pueda seguir haciendo frente a las amenazas existentes y nuevas que representan las armas de efectos excesivamente nocivos e indiscriminados.